Albert Kutal, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Albert Kutal

Czech art historian

Date of Birth: 09-Jan-1904

Place of Birth: Hranice, Olomouc Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 27-Dec-1976

Profession: historian, art historian

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Albert Kutal (9 January 1904, Hranice na Morave – 27 December 1976, Brno) was a Czech art historian of Moravian descent who established classifying principles of Central European Gothic sculpture as one of the first to study and analyse the medieval art of Bohemia and Moravia, and the influence upon it of Southern European iconography.
Kutal were influential in the development of formal analysis in art history in the early 20th century.
His magnum opus, still consulted, is Gothic Art in Bohemia and Moravia (published in English translation in 1971).